Blood Donor Services

Atlantic Health's Blood Donor Services Departments at Morristown Memorial Hospital and Overlook Hospital provide the safest, highest quality blood products for our patients:

• Blood is needed somewhere every three seconds
• One out of three people will need donated blood in their lifetime
• One out of ten hospital patients needs a blood transfusion
• Of the 60 percent of Americans eligible to donate blood, only five percent actually do so – and only one percent donate in New Jersey

Atlantic Health hospitals offer the following blood donation services:

Community/Employee Blood Donation: A group of committed, healthy volunteers donate their blood to this program.

Automated Blood Collection: This program offers an automated system that separates and collects only the most-needed blood products (blood cells, plasma and platelets), required by many lifesaving medical treatments, from a single donation.

Directed Blood Donation: Friends or relatives may donate blood for a specific patient. Directed donors must meet the same good health requirements that regular donors meet, and all blood donations are tested to assure their safety for transfusion.

Autologous Blood Donation: Individuals may donate their own blood for personal surgical needs through this program.